The software industry is a leading illustration of one of the sub-themes of this book. Intellectual monopoly is not a cause of innovation, but is rather an unwelcome consequence of it. In a young dynamic industry full of ideas and creativity, intellectual monopoly does not play a useful role. It is when ideas run […]
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Intellectual property an “unnecessary evil”
January 25th, 2008 · No Comments
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Intellectual Antiproperty
October 5th, 2007 · No Comments
If closed IP makes a small amount of people a lot of money - does opening the IP make a moderate amount of money for a large amount of people? The latter seems a better outcome to me. It also suggests that open hardware benefits small companies more than large ones.
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Fences/Windows
January 8th, 2007 · No Comments
Despite all the attempts at privatization, it turns out that there are some things that don’t want to be owned. Music, water, seeds, electricity, ideas—they keep bursting out of the confines erected around them. They have a natural resistance to enclosure, a tendency to escape, to cross-pollinate, to flow through fences, and flee out […]
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